Combo Conquest

[nottomhanks]

Hello!

About a month ago I picked up a bunch of machines that someone was throwing out, and in that group was a RasterOps 24Mx card with the original box, floppies and manual!!

I also bought a IIsi system from someone who was getting rid of older items. It came with 9Mb ram, 80 Mb HD, a dual PDS riser card with a 1024X768 monochrome video card.

I had a PDS to Nubus adapter from a previous haul, so I used it to install the 24MX inside the IIsi. Pretty cool how it displays 832@624 with thousands AND millions of colors.

This card also has 4 SIMM slots and you can split them up between graphic acceleration as well as a RAM disk.

Crazy!!

 

[Juror22]

That is so cool how you collected those bits of kit over time and brought together something that really shows it off well! The configurable memory between RAM disk and additional memory for HW acceleration sounds really advanced for the time, it was nice of you to share that feature here - I would never have found that out on my own.

Nice haul and great implementation as well!

 

[LaPorta]

I know it must be a British expression, but what are bits of kit?

 

[cheesestraws]

bits of kit

Translates approximately as "pieces of equipment" but with a slightly diminutive sense .